China and Cuba: A Post Cold-war Marrieage Part III: Collaboration in Biotechnology and Neurosciences

Abstract

Today China and Cuba have a “stable, strategic, and long-term alliance” (Arreola, 2004) whose three fundamental pillars are: 1.) a geostrategic partnership by which Cuba serves as a bridge to advance China’s interests in Latin America and the Caribbean; 2.) collaboration in military-intelligence, centered on radio-electronics (SIGINT) and information technology (I.T.); and 3.) collaboration in biotechnology and neurosciences. This paper addresses Part III of a 3-part series titled “China and Cuba: A Post Cold-War Marriage”; Part I addressed “The Economic Relationship and Part II “Military-Intelligence Cooperation.”